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Black Tiger	Jul 1 2009, 07:38 AM
Charter Member Posts: 1,813 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: September 15, 2005	One fun B from Republic is Up In The Air (1940). It stars Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland trying to solve a murder at a radio studio. Quite a few serial alumni including Lorna Gray, Tris Coffin, Dennis Moore, Carleton Young and Gordon Jones. Last Crooked Mile (1946) is another Republic who-dunnit with Don Red Barry as a wisecracking reporter who comes out of the tunnel of love roller coaster with a dead body in the back that wasn't there before (!) One of my all-time favorite murder mysteries of the period is The Ninth Guest (1934) starring Donald Cook. The plot concerns a number of people invited to a party in a penthouse. They find they are trapped there and are killed off one-by-one by a mystery person who speaks to them through the radio who has a grudge against each of them. Sound familiar? It's based on a play by Owen Davis - whose work preceded Agatha Christie's own novel.


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